The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-10-28
STATE NEWS.
Culled Here ard There With
Comment

The Wheel organization in Ten,
nesseS represents more than one
thousand subordinate Wheels, with
mem bershIp of about $4,000.
This LOCKS like unity ameng the he
rolc keepers Of the SOL.
Two boys, ma ued Ross Partridge
and Leonard Biges, got into
quarrel at a show 10 Jackson last
Thursday night, when Biggs whip
ped out his knife and cut n deep
cash in the other boys hand. Par
ties intertered, before any further
mischief was done. Neither one Of
the boys is ten years old. Bal
blood there.
The Presiden tial train made a
rate Of forty six miles per hour from
Nashville to Chattan oga last week.
Several miles OF the run lay in the
midst OF the Cum berland mountains,
where they dashed ever yawnIng
cnasws, through mountains, around
mountain sidss, down ravines, and
beneath sVsrhanging rocks Of mill,
ion tonnage
By rising vOtO the Tennessee
conference of the MethodiEt Episco-
pal church south, at Its recent sea-
sion in Gallatrn, Tenn, adopted \
iesolutiUn cOndemnatory of theatre
going, dancing and card-playing,
and endorsing those ministers who
enforce disciplinary rules concern
ing worldly amusements.'
Capt. Edward L. Belcher, for
many Year, an attorney at-law in
EIsmp his, died at Dallas, Tex, on
Thursday last, aged fol ty>fivs years.
He was a native Of Hardeman coun~
ty, and during the war was quar-
termaster i'll the confe derats army.
There are now thirty eight pris~
oners confined behind the bars of
Montgomery County jail at Clarks-
willie, seven vi whom are charged
with murder, eleven thieves, five
assaultins to sill, three a,sturbsrq
Of the peace, two wife whippers,
tive robbel ), three lunaucs. one alb
ductionist, one for bringing stolen
property into the State, one carry
ing concealed weapons ana one
pauper.
John Lowell, a farmer living in
Carroll County, was stabbed four
times in the left arm and in the
back, about daylight last Friday
morning in saloon, bJ Henry Pate,
another farmer livms near Cay
brook, in that county. Lowell in
comr1uy with tive other men went
in 10 1T 4 drink While they we're
standing a. the bar, Pate aIss came
in amu asked Lowell IT he Mas the
same man who had cursed him the
night oe tore. He made some reply,
Pate stabbed han. He then fsl,
leaving his hat ia his
haste 70 get away, and had not been
found at last accounts.
The Taylor brothers rece ivsd 235
| 465 votes, and now the vote for and
against the amendment sums uD TO
262, 7O1 votes, being Is ,235 votes
more than was cast iii the last cleo
ton for Governor. The vote is the
lars est ever cast in the State and OF
course it IS all right and there /, no
| trouble lii accounting for il or in
| putting your hands on the 2S, 236
ISllows mo crept cut of their holes.
A great many peraOns, however,
are known to have renamed al
home aud Lot voted. Ii these had
q 1 come out and voted 1t is NJ tell
ing what the Vsts would have oeeu.
I-Covingtun Leader.
Over in Madison county, TennSs~
see, one Anti-ProhibtiYnist started
out during the canvass to deliver D
| speech in bis neighborhood, bnI
getting drunk Oh the way. purchas-
cd jug or two Of whisky, pressed Il
couple of temperance men into his
little army Of enc, forced them 10
drink them selves drunk and accom-
pany hin several miles ell route,
and finally hauled up in church,
scattered the congregation, and
held the entire neigh borhood in 3
STAGE Jfsisge Till it pleased him to
move on lie didn't make the
preacher drunk, tor that gentleman
esca ped oy the rear window.